Welcome to Sierra Club, Middle Snake Group in Idaho.
The Middle Snake is one of five groups within the Northern Rockies Chapter (Idaho and Eastern Washington). Our group directly represents the interests of about 1500 Sierra Club members in southwest Idaho.
We work on many different conservation issues. Currently our focus is on protecting our clean water from a proposed cyanide heap-leach gold mine in Atlanta at the headwaters of the Boise River. We are also working on a Cool Cities campaign to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Boise to address global climate change. We continue our work to improve management plans for public lands and work toward designation of wilderness areas. We are working to protect wildlife and wilderness in the desert public lands throughout southwest Idaho.
The group hosts occasional potlucks and monthly meetings. Potlucks are a great place to meet new friends, enjoy a good meal, and learn about a new topic. Meetings focus on conservation topics (bald eagles on the Boise River, salmon restoration, wildlands protection, Cool Cities, and much more).
On our outings we go to both the deserts and forest areas. The hikes range from easy to difficult so just about anyone can join in on the fun.
BUGS: Boise Urban Garden School
The 2008 Boise Urban Garden School summer program is located behind the Wright Congregational Church at 4821 W. Franklin near the corner of Orchard and Franklin.
What is the Boise Urban Garden School? BUGS provides youth with an alternative to a world of instant gratification, fast food, fast travel, and consumerism. BUGS teaches youth the value of the natural world, patience, perseverance, and responsibility for themselves, their community and the planet, and empowers them to make their world a better place.
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Owyhee Get Together
Sierra Club, Idaho Conservation League, Idaho Outfitters and Guides Association, Idaho Rivers United, The Nature Conservancy & The Wilderness Society invite you
to a fun, informative gathering.
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All are welcome to attend our monthly plannning meeting:
First Tuesday of every month: Middle Snake Group Business Meeting: 5:30pm, Sierra Club Office, 503 W. Franklin, Boise. Everyone welcome. Great way to learn about current issues. Join us to help plan our future activities. Call to confirm, 384-1023. We hope to see you there!
Be Part of the Solution! Earth Day 2008 was a wonderful day for global warming activists in Idaho when the first set of recommendations from the Mayor's Climate Protection Advisory Committee was presented to City Council. This is the beginning of a process which will result in ordinance and policy changes designed to reduce Boise's carbon footprint.
In August of 2006, at the Sierra Club's urging and with the Club's support, Mayor Dave Bieter signed the Mayors' Climate Protection Agreement which commits Boise to reduce its carbon dioxide (the leading greenhouse gas) emissions to 7% below 1990 levels by 2012. To help with the process, the Mayor appointed a 6 member committee which we are excited to say, Alan Hausrath, Sierra Club representative, sits on.
Our group wants to get people thinking, talking and taking action at a local level to protect our climate and health. Success will require all of us to do our part. Stop by the office to pick up a free compact flourescent energy saving light bulb anytime! We are working to promote conservation, efficiencies and renewables to lead us toward a clean energy future. Coal and nuclear are not the answer. Together we can build a better, cleaner and safer future.
For what is happening across the nation: http://coolcities.us/
Have you seen the film, Kilowatt Ours? Help educate others by hosting a screening at your home, church or school! jessica.ruehrwein@sierraclub.org
THE FILM: opens with Vice President Dick Cheney's energy policy speech in which Cheney makes the claim that America needs nearly 1900 new power plants in the next 20 years to meet projected electricity demands. From here, filmmaker Jeff Barrie takes viewers on a journey from the coal mines of West Virginia to the solar panel fields of Florida, as he discovers solutions to America's energy related problems.
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